--- title: "June 11, 2006" url: https://technologyvoices.com/archive/2006/06/11/ description: "Entries filed on Technology Voices on June 11, 2006: Tales from a Bionic Ear, The Security of RFID Cards, And so it begins...TechEd 2006." published: 2006-06-11 updated: 2006-06-11 --- # June 11, 2006 Published 2006-06-11 4 entries filed this day ## Tales from a Bionic Ear [David A Chappell](https://technologyvoices.com/blog/117/) · Vice President and Chief Technology Evangelist, Sonic Software · Software Development I just heard a fascinating podcast interview with Michael Chorost, who had a computer implanted in his head to stimulate his auditory nerves directly. Chorost’s hearing snuffed out shortly after he completed his Ph.D. in English, and he speaks eloquently about the experience of losing an organic sense and gaining an electronic facsimile. Bionic hearing, it seems, is impressionistic. Filed at 5:45am ## The Security of RFID Cards [Bruce Schneier](https://technologyvoices.com/blog/107/) · Founder and Chief Technical Officer, Counterpane · Security Interesting paper on the security of contactless smartcards: Interestingly, the outcome of this investigation shows that contactless smartcards are not fundamentally less secure than contact cards. Filed at 9:04am ## And so it begins...TechEd 2006 [Bruce Johnson](https://technologyvoices.com/blog/62/) · Principal Consultant, ObjectSharp · Software Development Arrived at the hotel a few minutes ago, after spending a wet by nice weekend at Cape Cod with my wife. Yes, I wasn’t as eager as my colleagues to get started on the technical content. So sue me. :) Filed at 1:41pm ## What comes after Java and .Net? Agents. [David A Chappell](https://technologyvoices.com/blog/117/) · Vice President and Chief Technology Evangelist, Sonic Software · Software Development Most systems until now have been centralised : A bit like the old Soviet Union, everything is centrally planned. The trouble is real-life isn’t like that - it’s a market economy with no central control. There’s a story about a Russian Diplomat posted to New York in the 60’s. On a visit to a bakery he asked - who decides how many loaves are baked in the city? The answer is no-one - each baker individually decides how many to bake based on how many he sold the day before. Somehow (almost) everybody gets fed. Filed at 4:45pm [Back to the full archive](https://technologyvoices.com/archives/)